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$4 U.S. 1893 Columbian Exposition Stamp

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$4 “Isabella and Columbus” - From a Painting by Lorenzo Lotto
$4 U.S. 1893 Columbian Exposition Stamp

$4 U.S. 1893 Columbian Exposition Stamp

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The first United States Stamp with a woman’s portrait, there were only 26,350 of this printed. Isabella’s daughter Catherine would be come the first wife of Henry the VIII of England.

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